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Jason C
@jasonc_nc
These are existing U.S. streets over a century old, yet your local fire department will tell you they are impossible to build today. We should be building more places like this and designing emergency response around them, instead of the broken alternative that has given us less enjoyable ~and~ less safe cities.
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Daniel Trubman
@dmtrubman
The streets in your city are too wide 📍Center City, Philadelphia
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Jason C
@jasonc_nc
PS - it can be done. In fact it is being done every day, all over the world.
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Jason C
@jasonc_nc
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3/ “it’s possible to have the best of both worlds: smaller, more maneuverable trucks, with the same capabilities as larger, less nimble models” “As cities look at new models in the life cycle of replacing their fleets, this win-win dynamic can help make for safer streets.” x.com/jasonc_nc/stat…
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Michael Girdley
@girdley
Yeah, the fundamental problem is one of incentives. People want something more livable but the fire folks want zero fire risk to avoid blame. So, we end up with a mess.
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Jason C
@jasonc_nc
Interestingly they can’t even prove the lower fire risk. -Existing examples here aren’t statistically less safe -Peer countries have equal or better outcomes using these same forms. The “risk” is that it would require fire departments to utilize different apparatus in urban
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Jason C
@jasonc_nc
Bingo.
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The c in causal stands for Cory
@coryfromphilly
Replying to @dmtrubman
Fun fact, these streets were created in defiance of Billy Penn's original master plan. No variance required, though!
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Vinny Daniel
@Vinny_Daniel0
This book does a great job of showing that density can be built not only vertically but horizontally with minimal setbacks and curved paths!
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Julie Chang
@JulieChangRE
The way Americans have fear porn about fire would make you think Europe doesn’t exist. Nor old neighborhoods in US cities
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JAB
@b_bran223
Hi can we start by not having above ground power lines. I give the UK credit in that capacity at least
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ilnyapersonne
@ilnyapersnne
If we lived the way fire marshals dreamed, we’d be living in underground concrete bunkers with no paper fabric wood or electricity allowed
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